My Top Songs of All Time 1051-1075

1051 Think                                         Aretha Franklin
1052 On the Wings of Love                Jeffrey Osborne
1053 Baby It's You                            Smith
1054 Keep on Dancin'                        Gentrys
1055 Woodstock                                Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
1056 Jean Genie                                  David Bowie
1057 Praise You                                  Fatboy Slim
1058 Why Can't We Be Friends          War
1059 Strawberry Fields Forever           Beatles
1060 Like a Rolling Stone                    Bob Dylan
1061 634-5789                                   Wilson Pickett
1062 Brown Sugar                               Rolling Stones
1063 I Wanna Have Some Fun            Samantha Fox
1064 White Room                               Cream
1065 Pass the Dutchie                         Musical Youth
1066 Hard to Say I'm Sorry                Chicago
1067 Ruby Tuesday                            Rolling Stones
1068 Basketball Jones                        Cheech & Chong
1069 Love is Like Oxygen                  Sweet
1070 Human                                       Human League
1071 Nineteen                                    Paul Hardcastle
1072 Its Just Begun                            Jimmy Castor Bunch
1073 Ring of Fire                               Johnny Cash
1074 Give More Power to the People Chi Lites
1075 Little Willy                                  Sweet

If you grew up during the Viet Nam war, the experience probably had a significant effect on you. It had a greater effect on the combat soldier. The song Nieteen  starts out in WW II the average age of the combat soldier was 26. In Viet Nam he was 19. InInInInInInIn Viet Nam he was 19. Once you hear that song once you will never forget the song about not only the age of the soldier but the affect it had on the soldiers who served.

Musical Youth was a 5-boy reggae group who recorded a clean version of Pass the Kouchie(pass the joint). It contained two setrs of brothers and was a Grammy Nominee in 1982. The Musical Youth nwas also the first black group on MTV.

Keep on Dancin' was by far the Gentrys biggest hit--charting in 1965. What they may be better known for is producing Jimmy Hart--"The Mouth of the South" who went on to become a pro wrestling manager.

Why Can't We be Friends is the first of nine songs by War in my countdown. War was one of my favorite bands growing up and I saw them live in Shea Stadium in 1975. I keep hoping Lonnie Jordan who is the singer/organ player in War and who tours with a bunch of non-War guys will rejoin his old band now called the Low Rider Band which consists ex-War guys Howard Scott, Lee Oskar, Bebe Dickerson and Harold Brown but I'm afraid that won't happen.

My Top Songs of All Time 1101-1125

1101 Don't Give in to Him                                Gary Puckett and the Union Gap
1102 The One I Love                                       REM
1103 A Horse with No Name                           America
1104 Psychedelic Shack                                   Temptations
1105 Candida                                                   Tony Orlando and Dawn
1106 Tonight She Comes                                  Cars
1107 Kiss a Girl                                                Keith Urban
1108 Stacy's Mom                                            Fountains of Wayne
1109 Never Loved a Man                                 Aretha Franklin
1110 She's a Bad Mama Jama                           Carl Carlton
1111 One Less Bell to Answer                          Fifth Dimension
1112 American Boy                                          Estelle featuring Kante West
1113 Catch Us if You Can                                 Dave Clark Five
1114 I Think We're Alone Now                         Tommy James and the Shondells
1115 Proud Mary                                              Ike and Tina Turner
1116 Sealed with a Kiss                                    Brian Hyland
1117 Up On Cripple Creek                               The Band
1118 Get a Job                                                  Silhouettes
1119 Don't You Care                                        Buckinghams
1120 Don't You Get So Mad About It               Jeffrey Osborne
1121 Our House                                               Madness
1122 More More More                                    Andrea True Connection
1123 Toes                                                        Zac Brown Band
1124 I'll Be There                                             Michael Jackson
1125 Tipsy                                                       J Kwan

The Temptations were my favotite group in High School and I'll never forget going into MSG and seeing them in 1970 and getting right up front and watching Eddie Kendricks sing Its Just My Imagination. Alas, Eddie, David Ruffin, Melvyn Franklin and Paul Williams died young and althouigh Dennis Edwards and Otis Williams soldier on with competing versions of the Temptations it is nowhere near the same. This is the first of 11 songs by the Temptations.

The Cars were one of my favorite 80s bands and I think Just What I Needed was one of the highlights of Live Aid. This is the first of 7 songs by the Cars.

Gary Puckett still keeps it real on tour(sans the Union Gap) and this is the groups first of 5 sngs on my list.

One Hit Wonders is a phrase misused in my opinion as many bands on various countdowns had more than one. Quarterflash who had 3 huge hits was ranked in the one hit wonders by VH1? Despite my thought that Madness and the Andrea True Connection were one hit wonders, they each hit the top 40 with two songs during their run. In fact, the former actress in X-rated movies, Andrea True, hit the Top 100 4 different times in her career.